The relevant facts that no one dares to mention

 Here we go again.

A 29-year-old man, Jacob Blake, who happens to black, was shot in a confrontation with police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. 

He was shot seven times in the backbit police and is now in serious condition in a Milwaukee hospital. 

The Kenosha police department has not released details beyond a rudimentary account.

Police were responding to a domestic situation that, by accounts on record so far, Blake was trying to de-escalate. But we don't know details about his conversation with police after being detained, or whether he had their position to return to his car. 

That didn't stop Democrat elected officials like Joe Biden and Wisconsin governor Tony Evers from inferring racism as the officers' motive involved and extrapolating to a general assessment that systemic racism is some kind of huge problem in our country.

Evers said in his pubic statement that

While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.

Joe Biden said that "[w]e are at an inflection point. We must dismantle systemic racism." 

These demagogues are stoking the situation for immediate political advantage. That's the long and the short of it. Of course there was no way they were going to wait for more details to emerge. 

This incident is emblematic of a pattern we've seen in the other two most-discussed police shootings since May. 

Blake, like Rayshard Brooks and George Floyd, had a criminal background:

According to Wisconsin Circuit Court Access online records, a Jacob S. Blake, same age and with an address in the same exact block where the shooting occurred, had a warrant issued for him on July 7 on pending accusations of misdemeanor criminal trespass to a dwelling with domestic abuse as a modifier; felony third-degree sexual assault with domestic abuse as a modifier; and misdemeanor disorderly conduct with domestic abuse as a modifier. A support action was dismissed, and the only other case that comes up is for not having a driver’s license.

A 2015 story in Racine Eye described how “Racine police say K9 Dozer had to help officers take a man into custody when the man refused to go quietly into custody after he pulled a gun at a local bar.” The man was described as Jacob Blake, 24, of Racine, which makes him the same age as the man shot by police on August 23. The Racine Eye story says he was charged with “one felony count of resisting arrest causing a soft tissue injury to a police officer and one misdemeanor count each of carrying a concealed weapon, carrying a firearm while intoxicated, endangering safety-use of a dangerous weapon, and disorderly conduct.” Those charges don’t show up on the circuit court website though.

That story further alleges, “Blake and two women were at the Brass Monkey tavern, 1436 Junction Avenue, Saturday when Blake got into an argument with another patron and pulled a black handgun. Blake pointed the gun at the other man, and the magazine fell to the floor. The bartender told Blake to leave, and he did but then pointed the gun through the window at patrons inside the bar before walking south on Junction Avenue.”

Police stopped Blake in a “high risk traffic stop” but he “exited the SUV and started walking toward officers and ignored commands to get down on the ground,” the story says. That’s when officers forced him to the ground and used a K9 when he kept resisting, the story adds.

Recall that Brooks, out on probation,  resisted arrest almost certainly because he knew he'd go straight back to jail on his  2014 conviction for false imprisonment, family battery and child cruelty. 

George Floyd had served time for an armed robbery during which he held a gun to a pregnant woman's abdomen. He had a track record of use of hard drugs and was in fact on fentanyl and methamphetamine at the time of his death. 

I've had the please-be-bigger-than-that tactic pulled on me for mentioning this last fact, but recordings subsequent to the original documentation show the police officers attempting to arrest him noticed that he was high and discussed it among themselves.

One more thing: all these guys have multiple children, but, except for Brooks, who wailed on his, no wives. Blake has a fiancé. Is she the mother of any of his kids?

I could see beings tisk-tisked over that as well, but, as Larry Elder tirelessly points out, with a great deal of substantiation, a home without a father living there and married to the mother of the children there is unlikely to be stable. Floyd's dad was out of the picture by the time he was two. At present, I can't find information on Brooks's or Blake's early family life. But in their roles as fathers, given that they were absent from home much of the time due to incarceration, the pattern is being perpetuated into the next generation.

The unrest in reaction to the Blake shooting has begun. A sheriff's department armored vehicle was cornered by a mob of thugs last night. Look for more.

You're not going to get the whole truth about this situation without relentless digging on your own. Most Americans don't have time for that, and will draw conclusions on incomplete and skewed data driven by an agenda. 

And thus does it get ever later in the day in post-America.